x, 288 pages : 23 cm

Papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, held Apr. 5-8, 1983

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The social impact of the computer / Robert W. Lucky -- Coping with complexity / J.F. Traub -- The information revolution : developments and consequences by 2000 A.D. / Michael L. Dertouzos -- Experimental computer science / Herbert Schorr -- Computer image synthesis : shapes / Franklin C. Crow -- Computer image synthesis : rendering techniques / Turner Whitted -- Democratic choice and technological change / Harley Shaiken -- Alternatives for the organization of work in computer-assisted manufacturing / Seymour Melman -- Knowledge engineering : the applied side of artificial intelligence / Edward A. Feigenbaum -- Knowledge technology : the promise / Pamela McCorduck -- Fifth generation computers : some theoretical issues / Kazuhiro Fuchi -- Some expert systems need common sense / John McCarthy -- Panel discussion : Has artificial intelligence research illuminated human thinking? / Hubert L. Dreyfus, John McCarthy, Marvin L. Minsky, Seymour Papert and John Searle -- Fundamental physical limitations of the computational process / Rolf Landauer -- The formation of three-dimensional biological structures : computer uses and future needs / Cyrus Levinthal -- Selective networks and recognition automata / George N. Reeke Jr. and Gerald M. Edelman -- Taming and civilizing computers / Alphonse Chapanis -- Worsening the knowledge gap : the mystique of computation builds unnecessary barriers / Donald A. Norman -- Panel discussion : Computer-assisted negotiations : a case history from the law of the sea negotiations and speculation regarding future uses / T.T.B. Koh, J.D. Nyhart, Elliot L. Richardson and James K. Sebenius -- The role of the computer metaphor in understanding the mind / Daniel C. Dennett

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